FRIDAY NIGHT

Lola was over at Luke's house playing card games with him and Chris.

"Stop looking at my cards" Lola complained as Chris chuckled. He continued to look over her shoulder.

"I'm just seeing if your gonna play a dangerous card" he shrugged and placed a Black jack on the top of the deck. Lola placed a two and they both looked over at Luke.

"That's not fair. You guys are plotting against me" he said.

Lola and Chris laughed. "He's the one looking at my cards" Lola pointed fingers.

"Doesn't matter anyway he said placing another card down making Lola bust out laughing hysterically.

Chris eyes the both of them as he pick d up 16 cards from the deck.

They heard the door open as Chris picked up his last card.

Jamal walked into the with several bags, Some with brand labels. Some without.

"What are you doing here?" Jamal asked looking at Lola.

"We're playing cards." She giggled at the annoyed face Chris pulled.

"Deal me in" Jamal said dropping the bags by the large Christmas tree stood in the corner of the room.

"You don't wanna play with these idiots"

"Don't be a sore loser" Luke teased.

"I not lost yet"  he said placing a few cards down, skipping both of them.

Jamal took his jacket off and slipped in between Chris and Lola. He snatched everyone's card and dealt himself into a new game.

After a few minutes of playing Chris made everyone some pot noodles and they sat in the kitchen eating together.

"Damn m, I didn't know you could cook" Lola joked slurping on her noodles.

"I can actually cook" Chris said rocking on his seat.

"Sure, burnt toast" Luke said sarcastically.

"When have you ever been in the kitchen?"

"I'm always in here with mom"

"All you do is lick the bowl or the sauce off the spoon when she's cooking." Jamal said not taking his eyes off his phone.

"Who you texting?"  Lola asked nosily.

"None of your business" he said swiping down on her bottom lip with his finger. She swatted his hand away and continued to eat her food.

"My parents said they wanna spend New Years with us" Chris said.

"Fuck no" Jamal said putting his phone down.

"Not after the way they treated Lola" Luke said.

"And dads a damn hypocrite, he's got a whole kid out there too but apparently mom's a hoe" Jamal tutted.

Lola stayed mute as they ranged about their parents.

"Why are they still together?" Lola asked after a few minutes of them having a heated conversation they seemed to have had before.

They all turned to look at her like she was crazy.

"To be honest who knows" Luke said.

"Maybe it's cause they've been together since high school" Chris suggested.

"Either way, their relationship is toxic." Jamal said putting his stuff away in the sink.

The boys murmured in agreement.

"But you guys still love them, right?" Lola asked.

"Of course" Luke nodded. "Moms is the best at cooking" Luke said licking his lips dramatically his eyelids flickered too.

"Dad has the best advice ever. He's always got a quote to do with every situation" Chris said.

"Sometimes I think he makes them up" Luke chuckled slightly.

"And mom always cares, no matter what she wants to hear what we gotta say about shit." Chris added.

"Which is why I was surprised that she didn't wanna meet you" Luke said.

"Don't get me wrong, they can be good peoples. But they're not a good match. And they're both hella childish." Jamal said. Lola just nodded her head.

"I'm going home now" Jamal stretched. 

"Wait" Lola chased after him into the living room where he grabbed his bags.

"Do you want me to drop you off at home?" He asked.

"Yeah" she smiled. "I don't wanna have to see them right now. It'll just be awkward"

"Aight"

Lola slipped her shoes on and grabbed her coat. She kissed Chris on the cheek and waved bye to Luke who was putting their plates away.

"See you tomorrow" she said and shut the door behind her.

Jamal dropped her off at home and she went straight to her room to clean it up since Haley and Mika would be getting ready at her house then sleeping over. She then decided to give the whole house a clean. Her and Lucas had a rota, but it had been clearly falling apart lately. But she would always do the laundry and kitchen stuff. She just had to clean the bathroom and hoover.

When she was done she took a shower and slept.

***

SATURDAY MORNING

Lola sat with her dad eating breakfast chatting about his work and school and laughing. He had a day off so he was gonna spend a little time with Lola before going out with Jennifer, his girlfriend.

"So how's Michael?"

Lola smirked.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Lucas asked copying the sly smirk she had on her face.

"He asked me to be his girlfriend" Lola played cool.

"Really?" Lucas asked raising his eyebrows and dropping his knife onto his plate. It clattered with his plate and Lola looked up at him waiting for him to speak.

"Sorry" he chuckled slightly "I knew you guys had some typa thing going on but it looked like you guys couldn't see it yourselves"

"Oh. We could see it for definite" Lola nodded. "We just wanted to go slow. And I was a bit of a headache at first."

"Of course you were. You're your mother's daughter."

Lola rolled her eyes, but Lucas caught the little smile on her face.

"Good for you two though" Lucas said. "I like Michael. And his mom is nice too. Remember that cake she baked us when you got back from the hospital."

"That cake was beautiful" Lola agreed.

After they had finished eating Lola went back into her room to watch some shows on her laptop and heard someone knocking on the door.

"Dad" she called out.

He didn't reply.

"Dad, someone's at the door!"

"I'm in the shower. Can't you get it?"

She sighed and pushed her laptop off her lap. She walked down the steps and opened the door up for Haley and Mika who both stood there smiling from ear to ear.

"Why're you guys so early?"

"We're basically besties so I thought we should spend the whole day together." Haley said walking in with a backpack and duffel bag.

"You're only staying for a day you know?"

"I have a lot of stuff" Haley shrugged.

"She called me at 8 in the morning to wake me up" Mika complained walking in with a big nike bag.

"To be honest I thought it was 9 and I'm too excited." She cheesed. "I haven't been to a sleepover since I was nine"

Lola just laughed and helped them bring their bags into her room.

"Haven't been in here for a while" Mika smiled. "You cleaned up"

"I'm being a proper hostess" Lola replied making a fake accent.

After they had settled down they sat around and just talked. Eventually they began to gossip.

"Have you met that other sister Jamal told you about?" Mika asked.

"No."

"Your family has loads of plot twists yanoe" Haley said.

"Yup" Lola nodded. "My mom wants to spend New Years with her, but I'm not feeling it. Every time we see each other, the atmosphere is just off"

"Why does she want to see you?" Haley asked. Lola just shrugged.

"She probably just wants to see her daughter" Mika said.

"She shoulda felt that way when I wanted to see her" lol scoffed.

"She's still your mom though"

"That's true" Haley agreed.

"Why do you suddenly like her all of a sudden?" Lola asked.

"I don't, I just think she deserves a chance."

Lola sighed. "I don't even care anymore. It's just, I know some shit will probably pop off and I'm not in the mood for it"

"That's fair. But you shouldn't push her away. Maybe you should let her explain."

"Damn, look at you giving out advice and stuff" Haley teased.

"I always give out advice." Mika scrunched up her eyebrows.

"Yeah. But we never take it" Lola said.

"It's either 'take her nigga' or 'show her whose boss'"  Haley said mocking her tone.

"I never say that" Mika laughed.

"Well that's what I hear" Haley mumbled. Mika pushed her over on the bed so Haley grabbed a pillow and walked her on the head with it. They started arguing and Lola filmed them fighting to put on her private story.

***

Michael sat in the kitchen eating cereal and watching stuff on his phone.

His mom walked in with her work clothes on and started making herself some food to take to work.

"Why are you working today? You never work on Saturdays" Michael asked.

"I picked up an extra shift" she smiled. Her round face always made him feel at ease, she barely got angry and seemed very content at this point in her life.

She placed a soft kiss on his forehead and headed for the door. "Bye Junior. Tell Lola I said hi" she said unlocking the door.

"Oh" she exclaimed dropping her bag and hurrying back into the kitchen. She went into one of the cupboards and took out her piggy bank.

"Ma?" Michael asked. "What are you doing?"

"You'll see baby" she waved goodbye and left the house.

Michael went back to a rolling through his phone and eating his breakfast.

***

The girls had spent most of the day talking and listening to music loudly. Eventually, Lucas realised that the other girls came in and greeted them before returning to his room.

Around 1:05pm they had decided to go to 'Milkshakes' to eat and say hi to Pops.

Lola changed into some grey joggers and a white tee shirt, on her feet she wore fluffy socks and Nike sliders.

"Dad?" Lola knocked on his door before walking in.

"Huh?" He looked up from his laptop and smiled at her.

"Can we use you car please?"

"I thought Michael was gonna drop you off at the party" Lucas said taking his glasses off.

"Not for the party. We wanna go to 'Milkshakes'." 

"Let me get dressed. I'll drop you off."

"Dad we can go ourselves." Lola sighed.

"I'm not having you wreck my Mercedes" Lucas chuckled slipping a jumper over his head.

"I haven't even damaged my motorcycle yet" Lola said.

"My baby ain't the same as your motorcycle" he shook his head. "Plus, when was the last time you drove a four wheeled vehicle?"

"That's not the point" Lola said as her dad laughed.

"I'm going to see Haley's dad anyway" he said grabbing his shoes too.

After 30 minutes, they got to Milkshakes and the girls went straight into the back room with Haley.

"Oh so your back then" Pops said as Haley gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"We wanted food" she shrugged.

"Ahh" he raised his eyebrows.

She just laughed.

"My dad is out in the front" Lola said after giving him a friendly hug. Mika waved from the door.

"Tell him I'll be out in a few minutes" Pops said flipping over some burgers.

One of the waiters came through the back and grabbed a platter of food.

"Are we not getting food?" Haley asked.

"Haley if you don't-" he waved his spatula about "go and order like everyone else"

Haley pressed her lips together as the other two laughed.

They sat in a booth laughing and talking. Eventually, Lola spotted King in another booth on a laptop writing stuff down in a notepad.

They still spoke often. He would make jokes of the way she posed on snapchat and she would call the girls he hung out with dragons or complain about their eyebrows. Their conversations tended to make Lola smile and laugh.

"Wow King looks good" Mika said following Lola's stare.

"He looks exactly he same" Haley said.

"Nah" Mika shook her head.

"Can you stop googling over my brother please?"

"When you stop crushing on my uncle" Lola said,referring to Mika's a dad, sliding back into the conversation.

"He's a good looking dad" Haley argued. After a few minutes pops came out with their burgers and fries.

"Enjoy your meal" he smiled walking over to Lucas who already had had his food served to him by a waitress.

"How are you and Jared?" Lola asked Mika.

"We're not together anymore" Mika said quietly.

"Good." Lola said bluntly making Haley laugh and Mika look up. "Sorry but he was annoying and stupid horny"

Mika giggled at her remark and ate her fries.

***

7:00pm

Mika came out the shower with a towel wrapped around her.

"You take forever" Haley said rushing out of Lola's room and into the bathroom.

Mika just shrugged and took her lotion out of her bag.

"Mika, you've got a bruise on your back" Lola said squinting to look at it closer.

"Oh shit" Mika said reaching to her back. "Really?"

"Does it not hurt?" Lola asked touching it softly.

"No" Mika lied. She winced as Lola felt the bump below her shoulder.

Lola let go.

After they had all taken showers they began doing makeup and hair.

Lola started straightening Haley's hair for her as Mika did her makeup.

"Who else is going?" Shamika asked.

"I don't know" Haley shrugged.

"Basically, her whole friendship group and our friends." Lola answered.

"What about Li?" Haley laughed. Lola rolled her eyes.

"What about li?" Shamika asked looking between the two of them.

"She tried kissing on Lola in the changing rooms" Haley said.

"Say what now?" She turned around with her mouth hanging open.

"It's nothing. We're cool. It's just a bit awkward" Lola shrugged.

"Damn" Shamika chuckled.

After about an hour or so Michael pulled up outside. Lola ran down the stairs to unlock the door.

"Hey baby" she smiled giving him a hug.

"Damn you look good" he said taking her hand and twirling her around. She cheesed hard and he chuckled. She wore the black dress she hd bought and had her hair tied up in a neat top bun.

"Thank you" she kissed his cheek. "Do you wanna get something to eat before we go?"

"Sure" He said walking with her into the kitchen.

They sat and smacked on some food a little as the other two girls finished getting ready.

"Where's your dad?" Michael asked.

"He's out with his new girlfriend" Lola said. "They went out to dinner"

"Aww" Shamika walked in and cooked at Michael and Lola. "You guys look smexy "

"Damn I know I look good" Michael said flexing with his chain and durag.

"Let's take some pictures quickly before we go" Haley suggested.

"I'm first" Michael said standing up and posing. Haley took her phone out.

"Hold on" Michael said. He took Lola's hand and made pulled her off her chair. They posed together and he then grabbed her by the waist and pulled her in closer to his body making her giggle.

***

8:47pm

"Are we early or late?" Haley asked. Lola shrugged.

"She said it starts at 7 so I guess this is a good time" Mika said.

They pulled up to a massive three storey house with a gate.

"Damn" Michael stared in awe. "She's definitely loaded"

"It's so pretty" Haley said sticking her head out the car window.

"Put the windows back up its cold" Mika complained.

"yeah yeah" Haley mumbled. Michael pressed the buzzer on the side of the gate.

"Yo, it's Michael"

"You're late" Khloe answered, they could hear music in the background.

"Sorry, its Mika's fault." Lola said leaning over to speak into the speaker.

"Just park on the grass when you come through" Khloe said as the large gate slowly opened up.

"Why'd you always gotta blame it on me?' Mika huffed.

"We had to say something" Lola shrugged as Michael drove up the long driveway.

Loads of cars were parked outside and on the grass.

"Wow" Haley said getting out the car. "This is so cool" she exclaimed excitedly. "Let's go" she hooked her arm with Mika and walked into the grand house.

Lola felt Michael slip his hand into hers.

"Let's go then" He smiled and walked into the house with her.

The house was really crowded despite Khloe stating it would be a house chill and people looked good. They pushed their way through the corridor and looked into each room. People in the living room were boo'd up and talking, then they made they're way into the Dining room where their friends were.

"Hey what's up" Emmanuel said greeting the both of them. Lola peeked over his shoulder and saw them playing beer pong.

"We're good" Michael said saying hi to all his friends. Most of the basketball club were in the room and the cheerleaders. At the back of the room, there were two sliding doors leading to the kitchen and Khloe walked in with a drink.

"Oh my gosh, Hi" Khloe smiled. and made her way over to Lola. "I thought you didn't wanna come"

"Im sorry for being rude, school was just pissing me off" she said giving Khloe a hug.

"You look really nice" Khloe complimented.

"Says you" Lola said looking at Khloe's dark green dress. "You look amazing. It really goes well with your hair" Khloe smiled widely at the compliment like a little girl.

"Aww thank you, do you want a drink. All the food's gone now. You guys are so late" She said taking Lola's hand and leading her into the kitchen.

"Sorry"

The kitchen mostly had girls in it holding red cups and talking. Lola noticed Cecilia reunited with her little clicke.

"I know right" Khloe said following Lola's eyes. "I didn't invite her but she just showed up."

"Technically she's still kind of Queen Bee" Lola shrugged walking over to the punch bowl.

"I really have no idea how" Khloe shook her head and poured Lola a drink.

"Do you know if anyone has spiked it?" Lola asked before taking the cup.

"I only just refilled it before I got you."Khloe said. "But who knows"

Lola just stared at the cup, a lot of bad shit happened to her and she didn't want another bad thing to happen tonight.

"In fact, I can get you a sprite or coca cola instead."Khloe said pouring it back in.

"Thanks" Lola smiled as Khloe got a drink out of the fridge.

"Cheers?" Khloe held out her cup.

"Cheers"

Cecilia eyed them from the other side of the kitchen. "I thought you said they ad fallen out"

"They did" Li stated, but her friends told her to play nice.

"Ugh" Cecilia groaned.

"I don't get it, why don't you like her?" Taylor asked.

"Shut up Taylor" Cecilia said walking away, Li followed her outside.

Taylor sighed and put down her drink, she sat up on the counter and watched the people in the kitchen talking and smiling. Occasionally a class mate would say hi or smile.

"Hey" a soft voice said.

"Hey Darius"

"You look nice" He said placing his hands either side of her. She smiled shyly.

"Thanks."

"How come you're here alone, I thought you cam with Cecilia" he said.

"She's being a bitch"

"Why didn't you come find me then?"

"You were with your friends"

"So what? I like seeing you" he said moving in closer towards her.

Shamika and Haley had first made their way to the boys in the dining room. Haley had found Luke and they were currently rocking together and whispering sweet nothings. Shamika spot to Darius a little bit until he left to go to the kitchen and she was alone. She wasn't interested in making small talk with the guys playing beer pong so she went into the garden where people were dancing.

The garden was massive and had a pool further back along with a jacuzzi. Shamika looked at her surroundings and sat down on a long chair and took her phone out.

"Nuh uh" Thomas snatched her phone out of her hands. Shamika smiled unconsciously and tilted her head.

"Really? You'rev just gonna take my phone?"

"There's people all around you. Maybe you should talk to them" Thomas said. "Just a suggestion. He pulled up a seat and sat next to her.

"I'm not in the mood to make friends."

"Then why're you here?" He asked. She looked over at him his hazel eyes looked brighter than usual.

"I forgot my friends are always with their significant other" 

"Where's yours?"

"Oooh. I like the way you slid that in there" Mika chuckled making him grin.

"I mean I had to ask" he said smiling.

"I don't have one"

"Cool" He said smiling even more. Mika tilted her head at him. "Oh I mean I'm sorry you guys broke up or whatever"

"It's whatever" Mika chuckled biting on her bottom lip.

"Do you wanna get a drink then?" He asked.

"I'm not drinking" Shamika stated.

"I respect that, but imma still get a drink" he said hoping up. "I can get you water if you want"

"Yeah please"

Khloe and Lola had headed back into the dining room and were laughing hysterically.

"My dad would've busted my ass if I did that" Lola said.

"To be honest, he thought banning me from going horse riding was a big punishment so I got away with loads." Khloe giggled.

"Wow. You can ride?"

"Yup. But I haven't been since I was little" Khloe nodded sipping on her drink.

"Yo I'm trying dance, Khloe can you turn the music up" Emmanuel yelled across the room.

She waved him over.

"Can I put some songs on?" Lola asked.

"Sure, add it to my Spotify playlist" Khloe unlocked her phone and handed it to Lola as Emmanuel made his way over.

"The speakers go all around the house, the one in the back garden is the loudest so do you want me to turn that one up and you go outside?" Khloe asked.

"Sure" Emmanuel nodded. "Can I put some songs on?"

"Sure, But Lola's adding some first."

"I bet you're adding bad bitch shit" Emmanuel teased looking over her shoulder.

"Move" Lola laughed mushing his head. She gave him the phone afterwards. When they were done, Khloe turned he speaker up from her phone and everyone started getting hyped up to Migos 'bad and boujee'.

People started piling into the kitchen to make their way outside or through the corridor.

Lola felt Michael's hand pull her through the crowd.

They found their way to Luke and Haley who were already dancing and Taylor was also with them too.

"Hey" Lola smiled she gave her a hug.

"You look so good Lola" Taylor said.

"Thanks boo" she smiled.

Inside, Cecilia went outside to the front of the house to smoke. She noticed another girl out there too wearing a white bandeau dress and had her hair slicked back.

"What?" The girl turned to look at her.

"Huh?" Cecilia said.

"I could feel you staring at me"

"You're not from school are you?" Cecilia said walking down the steps and sitting next to her.

"Nope"

"Why're you here then?"

"Why are you here?" She retorted.

"I go to the same school as these idiots."

"That's not the answer I want. There's a reason you're out here rather than in there" the girl said. She didn't once turn to face her. She looked forwards and blew some smoke out.

"I'm tryna get with this guy but this bitch won't leave him alone. Wherever he goes, she goes." Cecilia complained.

"Same here" she chuckled. "Where've this girl goes he seems to follow. It's so annoying, like she's got him on a leash"

"He's so fine too" Cecilia said. "But she's already turned him against me"

"Shame." The girl said. "I think I've still got a chance"

"Who's the guy? I probably know him."

"Michael. Michael Rainey Jr" The girl said looking over at Cecilia.

// So I expected more for this chapter but it doesn't matter. 🤷🏾‍♀️. A lot of stuff will happen next time I promise you that.
Can you tell I'm trying to include everyone in the story more? -Imma still focus on Lola and Michael though.

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